BJP core committee meets
The Hindu
Upcoming polls to South Graduates’ Constituency discussed
The BJP core committee meeting with regard to the forthcoming elections to the South Graduates’ Constituency was held in Mysuru on Tuesday.
Minister in charge of Mysuru and Chamarajanagar districts S.T. Somashekar; Y.A. Narayanaswamy, MLC; former MLC and party spokesperson Ashwath Narayan Gowda; Hanumanth Nirani, S.V. Sankanur, MLCs; and others took part. The meeting was attended by the leaders and party functionaries from Mysuru, Mandya, Chamarajanagar, and Hassan districts.
The purpose is to elicit opinions from the party cadre, and the strategies to be adopted for winning the polls.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists